Byron's correction for skipping our involvement in the cross, the call to die for our old selves, got me thinking.
Christians aren’t people with God on their side. In fact, are christians even people on Gods side? Like Jacob, christians enter the ring with God. We are people who take ourselves into combat with God, expecting conflict, expecting to lose. We expect God to harm and hurt and scar us as we are. It wasn’t just men who put Jesus on the cross, it was God too. And when Jesus asks us to lay down our lives, pick up our cross and follow him, we lay down our lives for others, and for God. God makes us die to ourselves. That’s gotta hurt. That doesn't sound like he is on our side at all!
But like Jacob, we expect God’s blessing. We will see the face of God and be spared. For christians this combat isn’t a senseless beating, but as God beats the crap out of us, we are less crappy. The scars from what has been removed are necessary. In them we take on our role as God’s people, those who have struggled with God and with men and have overcome.
ps. I realise after my last rant and rave that this doesn't mention Jesus much at all. hahaha
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as God beats the crap out of us, we are less crappy
Sweet perfume indeed!
Welcome to blogland. A few more posts like this and you might get some readers...
...speaking of getting more readers - they might want to know what you're talking about in the first and last lines of this post, where you refer to other stuff. Unless you want to be mysterious, of course.
He is always mysterious...as mysterious as his mullet
Dude - you should totally change this template. Black on blogs isn't the most aesthetically pleasing.
You need to love your blog (that way it might survive infant mortality).
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